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Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:35:02 +0000

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington on Saturday.

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Cao Votes for “Life”; Achieves Legislation to Protect the Health of All Americans

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:14:43 +0000

Tonight, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (LA-2) voted in favor of the comprehensive health reform bill, H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Of his vote, Cao said: “Tonight, I voted to keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortion and to deliver access to affordable health care ...

Talking Points Memo found this 20 hours ago on josephcao.house.gov

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Hasan a Muslim First, American Second?

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:45:37 +0000

In hindsight, it appears that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the mass murderer who killed 14 (one of the soldiers killed, Francheska Velez, was six weeks pregnant ) and wounded another 30 at Fort Hood, had long made it known that he sympathized with the enemy. Bloomberg’s Justin Blum : ...

Below The Beltway found this 10 hours ago on outsidethebeltway.com

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State Worker gets beat up at a SEIU meeting

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:47:35 +0000

Your Unions hard at work! The Video is here , and boy does it ever show the damage. The Story: A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose allegedl ...

Patrick Adkins posted 56 minutes ago from politicalbyline.com

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Iraq poll law step toward U.S. withdrawal: Obama

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:15:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Sunday the approval of a long-delayed election law by Iraq's parliament would allow the polls to go ahead early next year and pave the way for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

The Political Carnival found this 2 hours ago on reuters.com

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Yes, the House Public Plan Works

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Jacob S. Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University, author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream , and an occasional contributor to The Treatment. Diane Archer is the director of the Health Care ...

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Yahoo! News Photos

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:12:21 +0000

African-American protestors march past the White House in Washington, DC. Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home. ...

Gateway Pundit found this 23 hours ago on news.yahoo.com

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Fox News personalities aggressively promote Bachmann's protest against health care reform bill

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:14:23 +0000

In recent days, following its pattern of advocacy, Fox News and its personalities' have repeatedly promoted Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) November 5 anti-health care reform protest, to be held on Capitol Hill and in the halls of Congress. Fox News has previously promoted numerous other rallies ...

News Hounds found this 2 days ago on mediamatters.org

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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who…

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:40:27 +0000

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROP THE BALL: “While DHS was busy putting tea parties and anyone who dares fly the official military Gadsen flag on the domestic terrorist watch list, a real terrorist was spouting off online, glorifying suicide bombings and our mission in Iraq. I mean, I’m ...

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The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:42:21 +0000

The caviar is flowing in Tehran.

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'Cringe' Mass Killer a Muslim Since It 'Inflames' Right Wing, 'That Makes It Much Worse'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:05:17 +0000

Newsweek's Evan Thomas regretted the Fort Hood mass murderer, Major Nidal Hasan, is a Muslim because of how that reality will be abused by conservatives. On this weekend's Inside Washington, Thomas, now Editor at Large with Newsweek after stints as Assistant Managing Editor and Washington ...

Nice Deb found this 22 hours ago on newsbusters.org

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Palin’s Speech

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:07:40 +0000

“My fellow Americans, tens of millions of you shared our convictions and gave us your votes. And I thank you for your confidence. For us, it was not our time . . . not our moment. But it is our country . . . the winner will be our president . . . and I wish Barack Obama well as the 44th ...

tsteels2 posted 29 hours ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Facebook Jihad: Praising & Praying for Malik Hasan

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:05:17 +0000

Thanks for Islam in Action for doing the major research on this, their post is worth the visit. I see some of our friends have already seen these disgusting Facebook pages -- including Darth Odieus. The vast majority of...

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Schakowsky: We're fighting off Stupak amendment

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Liberals in Congress are whipping votes to beat back Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) abortion amendment, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said this morning. "We're going to be organizing today to vote against the amendment," Schakowsky told C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Stupak's amendment explicitly ...

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Palin will headline media dinner

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Washington (CNN) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's sharp criticism of the media won't stop her from breaking bread with journalists next month at a dinner here in the nation's capital. The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee will be the GOP speaker at the Gridiron Club & Foundation's annual winter dinner, the organization announced Friday. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, will be the Democratic speaker at the Dec. 5 event. Palin's ...

Ben Smith's Blog found this 24 hours ago on politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

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Bad news for Israel...

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:51:00 +0000

The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk By Ed Lasky John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard of publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert ...

jhudock posted 31 hours ago from commonsensewonder.blogspot.com

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CSPAN Live Coverage of Government Takeover of 1/5 of the US Economy. [JHoward]

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:45:48 +0000

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DNC Urges D.C. Residents To Ask For The Vote Of Their Non-Voting Congresswoman

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Far be it for me to criticize the campaign arm of the White House/DNC, Organizing For America, seeing as they have successfully gotten one more president elected to office than I have. But I have to think that if you want to maintain this reputation of being awesomely granular sorters of voter ...

Ben Smith's Blog found this 24 hours ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Affordable Health Care for America Act

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:37:42 +0000

Bills Rules Reported Amendment Process Announcements Submit Your Amendment Summary of Amendments Notice of Action Committee ...

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The Associated Press: Frank takes dig at colleague in health care debate

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:01:59 +0000

1 day ago WASHINGTON Democratic Rep. Barney Frank took a dig Friday at the Republican lawmaker who organized a protest by conservatives against health care legislation. Frank, a Massachusetts liberal, told an audience: "Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation ...

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